Up until yesterday, the GOP side of the Texas goober-natorial was shaping up to be a nice little menage a trois – the last polls I’d heard had Big Dickhead Perry at 49%, Kay Bailout Hutchinson at 27% and this nurse from Beeville named Debra Medina at 19%. And the only reason Medina was closing on Kay Bailout was due to some incredible buzz, first from pseudo-conservative WBAP talk-show host Mark Davis, then from what I’ve been told are impressive performances in a couple of subsequent three-way debates between them all.

That all came to a rather abrupt end yesterday. Dan Riehl had a report about a supposed Perry sockpuppet whispering that Medina was a 9/11 Twoofer on one of the Dullest Moaning Snooze blogs.

Dec. 19: Perry has done a great job for veterans. Probably the most pro-veteran governor we have had in the modern era. Perry also IS a veteran, having served for more than half a dozen years.
Dec. 4: Rick Perry is awesome. Texas is the best state in America! WOOT!
Nov. 22: KBH is a liberal RINO. Perry needs to point that out early and often.
Nov. 8: Rick Perry is doing a heck of a job standing up to the liberals and keeping Texas the most prosperous state in the nation.

(For the time being, we’ll ignore the Moaning Snooze’s whining about supposed TOS violations. Frankly, I don’t give a shit about that either way.)

Anyway…

Glenn Beck had an opportunity to interview Ms. Medina about it, give the candidate a chance to “clear her name”, if you will, and – well – funny how that noose slipped around ol’ Deb’s neck as if it were a strand of pearls, y’know?

Okay, so it’s bad enough when you plant one foot in a pile of dogshit. (I gots me two puppies. Trust me on this.)

What makes it worse is when you go to “clarify” what you said earlier…and then go and plant the other foot in the same damned pile…

(UPDATE: I’m finding out only now that those of you who are idiots and run IE may not be able to see this. Here’s the link for you guys.)

Oops.

Buh-bye, Debra. Thanks for playing. Johnny OlsonRod Roddy Whatever your name is behind that mic…do we have any parting gifts for our nice contestant?

It helps, though, if you have Microsoft Internet Explorer set about 1024x768 1280x1024 with your Favorites window activated on the left deactivated. (At least until I can get a better handle on how WordPress works.)